Two days later, Liang Changying's album was released as planned. The album was downloaded and played for by over a million people just a few hours after a release.
This wasn't surprising since Liang Changying was a very talented artist, with a wide fan base. Even the current scandal didn't affect the momentum of its growth.
By the fourth day of its release, the title track of the album made a debut at number 25 of the 100 newest hits music charts. The title track had been written by Liang Changying herself.
Liang Changying's second minialbum was a success by all standards. Before long it had overshadowed Li Na's scandal.
A lot of netizens began to praise Liang Changying and KM entertainment, for taking a bold move. By refusing to give up due to the pressure from Liu Qiao Qiao's debut and Li Na's scandal and releasing the album as planned.
A few Netizens began to compare all six members of the former girl group, Pretty Girls. They analyzed the group's music videos and performances.
The previous rumors of Liu Qiao Qiao breaking up the group were brought up. The recent works of all the members were criticized. The public backlash to the news was insistent, none of the members were safe.
While this was going on, Liu Qiao Qiao like other members of the group went about her schedule, like normal. Baiyu Studios like other studios remained silent, so as not to encourage the rumors.
Liu Qiao Qiao had been invited to take part in the first episode of the popular Acting variety show 'Road to Stardom'.
The variety show was usually filmed live. On the day of the filming, Liu Qiao Qiao arrived at KBX Studios with Shi Xiaotong A hour earlier and was directed to the dressing room to get made-up.
A few of the other actresses were also getting their make-up. The cast was not yet complete so after getting made up, Liu Qiao Qiao sat back and read through the script.
'Road to Stardom' like most Acting shows usually invited ten actors per episode and had them perform a few improv sketches, designed to showcase their strengths and weaknesses as actors.
The actor was all given scripts with an outline of the sketches a few hours to the air time. There were three regular judges usually rotated per season and two regular hosts.
The judges were usually three of the industry's veteran Directors. The judges and hosts were announced to the public, a few days after the premiere of the first episode.
This was the tenth season of the show, so both the judges and hosts were top-notch. Since it was the tenth anniversary of the show.
The three judges invited were veterans Action movies Director and Box office Zi Yimo, Veterans internationally acclaimed Director Ma Zheng and lastly, veteran action martial arts actors turned Director Meng He.
The announcement had left the public agitating for more, but not as much as the cast list.
The cast list had caused quite the scare. it contained four of the currently trending celebrities, Li Na, Liu Qiao Qiao, Fan Hanying, and Zeng Xuefeng. Three of which were members of the former girl group, Pretty Girls.
A lot of viewers tuned in to the show, looking forward to the possibility of drama.
After a thorough equipment check, the show went on air as planned. The studio audience and Judges were already seated.
The two hosts Quan Hong and Gao Hui walked up to the stage. Both were super popular Entertainment show hosts from Lint Tv, the parent company of KBX Studios.
"Hi Everyone, Welcome to the first episode of the tenth season of Road to Stardom", the Hosts both said in unison.
"I am Gao Hui"
"and I am Quan Hong"
"To kick start this season, let's introduce our wonderful judges" the female host Gao Hui said after the studio audience gave a resounding applause.
"At the right, we have the Director of last year's Cannes film festival award for best movie, action category Director Ma Zheng"
The camera was quickly focused on the pretty middle-aged woman in light pick shirts and black pants.
Next up we have last year's academy award-winning Director Meng He.
After audience applause had died down, she continued
"Lastly we have the Director of last year blockbuster movie 'when crickets fall' Zi Yimo.
After the judges were introduced next up were the actors. The actors were introduced one after another until the list was exhausted.
The show began with the host reading out the rules and regulations of each game, followed by the instructions.
The producers changed up the format spice up the new season. In the previous seasons, the actors were judged individually for their performance. For this season they were grouped into groups of two.
The groups were divided by random selection by playing a guessing game. At the end of the games, the team was announced.
it was a huge surprise to everyone when Liu Qiao Qiao was paired with Li Na.